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Dang it Avalon, you c(XD LOL)-block Shirou and Reinforce, but don't protect his mind in other ways? What is wrong, you woman?
Friendship, be made! Magical power, gather! Starlight Breaker.... this world!

Given the fact that SHAFT is already working on other stuff (Hidamari 4, Nisemonogatari), I expect the Madoka movie to be put on the back burner for the time being. Even more so if they still have that nasty habit of being unable to make a deadline.

By comparison, the K-ON! movie comes almost 18 months after the second season aired. So yeah, if SHAFT comes with this movie any sooner than late 2012/mid-2013, don't expect much good to come from it.

The anime finally finished on April 21.... so maybe late (November) 2012 XD

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Dang it Avalon, you c(XD LOL)-block Shirou and Reinforce, but don't protect his mind in other ways? What is wrong, you woman?
Friendship, be made! Magical power, gather! Starlight Breaker.... this world!

On the January 2012 Issue of Megami Magazine, it was announced on Urobuchi’s interview that he finally finished the screenplay of the 3rd Film. Atsuhiro Iwakami, the producer of the Upcoming 3 Films of Puella Magi Madoka Magica said that the 3rd movie is not yet being worked on the studio even though Gen Urobochi finished the screenplay.

So do it already (the first part)... That I may be satisfied for mid/late-2012...

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Dang it Avalon, you c(XD LOL)-block Shirou and Reinforce, but don't protect his mind in other ways? What is wrong, you woman?
Friendship, be made! Magical power, gather! Starlight Breaker.... this world!

So do it already (the first part)... That I may be satisfied for mid/late-2012...

They have Kizu and Hidamari during those periods. Don't forget that Shaft likes to add stuff to their Blu-rays so just because a series has aired on TV, doesn't mean production for it has finished. I expect mid/late 2013 ASSUMING they have nothing after Hidamari 4 which I seriously doubt. I'm carving for my Denpa Onna 2.

Well, Nise starts this January...
Kizu is confirmed for Summer...
I believe Hidamari is confirmed for either Spring...

The earliest slot for Madoka movie is in Winter...
For the 1st and 2nd movie, they can put it like 1 hour movie and be screened on a month time difference like Break Blade / Towa no Quon format...
Still it will be 2013 for the BD to be released...

Sigh. Why do these companies insist on making compilation movies. Do they really think that they will be able to bring the series to the mainstream public this way?

Why not, though? In particular, two movies to cover the old material is not any substantial loss of screen time, and SHAFT has stated that they're aware of the compositional differences between a TV series which must leave viewers anticipating the next episode very week, and a movie which is experienced all at once, so that I have expectations this will not be a "compilation" but something closer to a movie "adaptation" in its own right.

Sigh. Why do these companies insist on making compilation movies. Do they really think that they will be able to bring the series to the mainstream public this way?

Actually, I think that's much of the point of compilation movies. To not throw new audiences right into the deep-end with an immediate continuation of the in-canon narrative.

As much as I loved The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya movie, I have to imagine that it might have been a bit hard to follow for viewers of that movie who weren't already very familiar with the established Haruhi narrative up to the point of Disappearance.

No, the people who lose out the most on compilation movies isn't the mainstream public, but rather the established fanbase. For us, the first two Madoka Magica will probably be treading a lot of familiar ground, with not many variations from what we've already seen (at most, it'll be comparable to the differences between Nanoha's first TV series and the Nanoha The First movie).

That's why if all we were getting was compilation movies, I'd be pretty disappointed. But at least the third movie will be entirely new, and so I'm happy about that. Now we just have to wait through two compilation movies to get to it.

Dang it Avalon, you c(XD LOL)-block Shirou and Reinforce, but don't protect his mind in other ways? What is wrong, you woman?
Friendship, be made! Magical power, gather! Starlight Breaker.... this world!